Beyond the Product Playbook: Growth, Profit and Hard Calls

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• How do product teams create meaningful growth while staying adaptable in a fast-changing market?

In this TPG Live roundtable, we will explore how product leaders balance growth, profitability, and long-term sustainability. Strong products create momentum by earning customer trust, making thoughtful investments, and building healthy businesses over time. This session will look at how teams evaluate trade-offs, prioritize opportunities, and make strategic decisions that support both immediate progress and future resilience.

We will also examine how product judgment is evolving as the industry changes around us. AI is accelerating execution, product roles are expanding, and many traditional frameworks are being re-evaluated in real time. We will discuss how experienced product leaders approach decision-making when conditions are changing quickly, signals are incomplete, and multiple perspectives need to come together around a shared direction.

• What helps product leaders make thoughtful bets in environments that continue to evolve?
• How can teams create momentum while staying responsive to new opportunities and changing conditions?

This session brings together practical insights and real-world experience from product leaders who are helping their teams grow, adapt, and make stronger decisions in dynamic environments. Whether you are balancing growth with profitability or navigating product decisions without a fixed playbook, you will leave with strategies that strengthen judgment, adaptability, and long-term thinking.

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• Jeremy Horn [aka The Product Guy]: Founder & Organizer, The Product Group https://linkedin.com/in/TheProductGuy
• Theresa DiPeppe: Product Manager, Livefront https://www.linkedin.com/in/tdipeppe/
• Swaetha Krishnan: Senior Program Manager, Cisco https://www.linkedin.com/in/swaethakrishnan/
• Sushrutha Sreevathsa: Project Manager / SRE, Yahoo https://www.linkedin.com/in/sushsreevathsa/
• Fiyin Adeyera: Product Manager, Taproot Foundation https://www.linkedin.com/in/fiyinadeyera/

🔍 KEY TOPICS:

• Growth vs. Profit in Product: Striking the Right Balance
• Product Judgment Without a Playbook: Making the Hard Calls
• Insights from top product professionals
• Tips, tricks, and best practices for all-levels of product enthusiasts.
• And more...

Growth vs. Profit in Product: Striking the Right Balance
Chasing growth can put pressure on product quality, team morale, and long-term sustainability. In this discussion, we will explore how product leaders navigate the tension between rapid growth and profitability. Learn how to set balanced goals, evaluate trade-offs, and make strategic bets that serve both short-term milestones and long-term resilience. Hear from teams that have found success by putting financial health and customer trust on equal footing.

Product Judgment Without a Playbook: Making the Hard Calls
Many of the frameworks product teams rely on were built for a different era. Metrics, prioritization models, testing methodologies, and org structures are all evolving as AI reshapes execution, roles continue to converge, and teams operate in increasingly uncertain environments. In this roundtable, we will explore what product judgment looks like when the standard playbook no longer fully applies. Learn how experienced product leaders make high-stakes decisions when the path forward is unclear, the process itself is still forming, and the signals are often incomplete or conflicting. We will also discuss how teams build alignment across functions when people approach the same product from fundamentally different perspectives. Whether you are navigating AI transformation, organizational change, or rapid market shifts, this session will help you lead with greater clarity, adaptability, and confidence.

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